Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.

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1 That 'll be lovely , I say politely over the telephone , do come round , it 'll be nice to see you .
2 From the inner-city I steer shakily over the Liffey and through the cobbled streets and mixed primary colours of old Dublin , through a wide stretch of bleak , bland suburbs and onto a motorway .
3 I walk quietly over the patio , onto the grass and towards the house , just waiting for the blaze of light from the security lamps .
4 I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast .
5 When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life .
6 I 've been bald from a very early age , but I happen to be in the hairdressing industry and I travel all over the world teaching .
7 No , I think probably over the years every avenue , other than perhaps this one , has been exploited to the full .
8 Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box .
9 I think it 'll come but , well , we 're rather impatient I think when you look back over the past hundred years you see some massive erm changes which are quite unprecedented .
10 You travel all over the place , you meet a ton of people , you stay in great shape .
11 You travel all over the world and stay in the top hotels where every room has its own sauna , jacuzzi , and hot and cold running maids .
12 can phone anywhere you like all over the world .
13 I have never had much time for the more esoteric confections you find all over the place .
14 You work all over the place , and you must spend a great deal of time away from home . ’
15 Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ?
16 The doctors said that he would have bled to death at a lower altitude and I 'm sure this is so , because as we let down over the Channel his bleeding started again .
17 If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant .
18 John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic .
19 This is clear if we look back over the years .
20 If we look back over the past twenty-five years or so , we can distinguish three main phases :
21 And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it .
22 We have all sorts of remaining problems but by and large , if we look back over the past three four years , tremendous progress has been made .
23 Now , suppose we go gently over the events of that night .
24 we shuffle out over the frozen ground ;
25 ‘ Do you remember when we wanted to get Gawain into Almeira Road school , and we could n't , because all the middle-class parents in s.w.23 were trying to get their kids into Almeira Road , and we live just over the zoning boundary ?
26 If we work hard over the weekend , we can — ’
27 She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side .
28 They dive all over the place .
29 As well as causing widespread damage to the fixtures and fittings of Butlin 's Somerset World where they were based they spread out over the local towns and villages , generally hooting their way around , leaving considerable wreckage in their wake .
30 They wash out over a number of shampoos .
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